The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-16
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The bark Scottish Lassie carried small
mail to San Francisco yesterday.
Professor Wagner, the African explorer,
committed suicide at Munich on the 31st
ult
A plague of locusts has visited the CEN
trail portions of Spain, ravaging the crops
fearfully.
Mr.. E. R. Ryan offers a number of boats
for sale, list of which will be found in an
other column.
The regular monthly business meeting
of the Y. N. c. A will be held in the par
lors at 80 o'clock this evening.
Contrary to the expectations of the own
ers of Coast colleries. the prices of foreign
coal show an upward tendency.
Five of Col. q. S. SpaIding's racing horses
were shipped to Kappa, Kauai, last even
ing, by the steamer James Makee.
Mr. n. F. Burgess, expressman and
drayman, is prepared to promptly fill all
orders left at his office, 81 King street.
1t is probable that there will be a rife
shooting match between a team from the
Z. S. S. Adams and the Hawaiian Rife
Association.
At noon to-day His Majesty the King
will receive in audience at Iolani Palace,
Commander Kempff and officers of the L.
S. S. Adams.
If you require estimates on wood, brick
or stone, plans drawn or any kind of car
penter work done, call on H. F. Bertel-
mann, So King street.
The Cambridge University crew have
agreed to row the Harvard College crew, if
the necessary funds to cover the expenses
of the trip to America can be raised.
9th says that young man who gave his
name as Girls Miller was arrested the previ-
Gus day for larceny OF a horse blanket from
the Philadelphia brewery.
The OokaIa Plantation, Hamakua, Ha-
wall. having finished planting. will COM
mence grinding next week. The Paauhau
mill has been further shut down for two
weeks more, in order to plant cane.
This afternoon the regular monthly
meeting OF the w c. T. e. will be held in
the parlors of the Y. NJ. G. A. a full at
tendance is requested, as business of spe-
cial importance is to be brought up.
1t will be seen in our by Authority"
column it is ordered as mark of respect
that on Monday, June goth, the fiftieth an
niversary of the accession of Queen Vic
toria, all Government offices will be closed
during the day.
On Saturday afternoon the Royal Ha
waiian band will give jubilee concert at
Emma Square. The programme will con-
sist OF entirely new pieces, composed in
honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen
Victoria's accession.
A fire occurred on May 31st at Hamburg
the vicinity of the quays. Two British
vessels were destroyed and many others
damaged. On the same date a fire at Per-
nambuco, Brazil, consumed $4,000 bales of
cotton and several warehouses.
After visiting Mount Vernon, Queen Ka-
piolani received from Washington lady
tiny lock of Gee rye Washington hair, and
the Princess received from another source
a goblet made from the wood of a chestnut
tree planted by Washington at Mount Yer
non.
On Monday evening a gentleman was
passing down the street by the Queens |
when he stumbled over rope |
stretched across the road and attached to |
a horse. He found, upon investigation,
that there were two horses in the street |
lied to the fence. He would have been
quite justified in turning them loose or
putting them in the pound.